Is there anything wrong with what I'm doing - specifically with the transaction log backups?

With Maintenance Plan transcational backups, yes it does a timestamp, but I'd rather have a single...

I don't see an option to time stamp a file with a maintenance plan.

Hmm...sorry...not that it matters but the code is taking out the '\ n' for the backup dir.

I think I found my answer -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178083.aspx